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NPR Gets $1M Grant to Help Diversify Its Content, Employees

NPR expresses the million-dollar funding will make it possible for the public radio station to continue that work, including the Reflect America and Code Switch Fellowships.

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NPR is receiving a $1-million grant that will assist in the radio station’s efforts to focus on the diversity of content and employees. Furthermore, the company wants to appeal to a diverse audience, which is at the root of improving this aspect.

“This generous gift will help support the four main categories of our DEI work: audience, content, staffing, and workplace diversity,” NPR’s Chief Diversity Officer Keith Woods in the announcement, said, per Inside Radio.

“At NPR, diversity is not a program or initiative. It is an inextricable part of our mission to serve the American public.”

The network has grown to focus on DEI – or diversity, equity, and inclusion. NPR expresses the million-dollar funding will make it possible for the public radio station to continue that work, including the Reflect America and Code Switch Fellowships.

NPR has mainly concentrated on diversifying its audience, including collaborative initiatives conducted with Member Stations. 

The company wants to put a more significant effort into having the audience hear and see themselves and their communities in NPR reporting. Furthermore, the station also intends to display a greater diversity of life experiences and perspectives in its shows.

“I’m extremely proud to support NPR in bringing even greater intention to ensuring a culture that both represents and serves all,” said Foundation Vice Chair Mollie Hale Carter in the announcement. “As a mission-driven organization, inclusion provides the foundation for a strong and healthy future.”

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Dan Bongino Thanks Listeners After Podcast Rises in Latest Podtrac Rankings

“I owe it all to you.”

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Podtrac has released its latest rankings for the month of February, and the results were encouraging for Dan Bongino.

During the month, Bongino remained in the top 10. Rising one spot, Bongino finished the month as the 6th most-listened-to podcast according to the Podtrac rankings.

On social media, Bongino thanked listeners for their help in moving him up the list.

“Thank you so very much for supporting me and the show. I owe it all to you.”

Bongino has shared his appreciation for listeners over the last several days as he mourns the death of his mother, who passed away last week.

Three other news podcasts bested Bongino in February, as NPR News Now and Up First from the public broadcaster finished first and third, respectively. Dateline NBC from NBC News rose two spots to finish the month second in the rankings.

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John Kobylt: News Consumers ‘Hear What They Want to Hear’

“If it contradicts what they believe, they just flat out don’t believe it.”

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A recent study from the University of Illinois claims 45% of respondents couldn’t decipher what was news and what was opinion when presented with different options. KFI AM-640 host John Kobylt believes that survey.

While discussing the results, Kobylt shared his belief that cable news and talk radio audiences only hear what they want to agree with.

“People want to hear what they want to hear. And people get mad at me all the time. We get comments and emails and things on social media, and they think I sold out one way or the other,” said Kobylt. “Look, I’m telling you what’s going on. I’ll tell you whether I agree or disagree, but I’m not making it up. And what I noticed is that people’s opinions say a lot more about them than it does me.

“People have really weird prisms that they look at life through and they have decided to invest emotionally and intellectually in ideologies and philosophies. And they’re impervious to the fact they’re impervious to news. If it contradicts what they believe, they just flat out don’t believe it.”

John Kobylt added that cable news outlets intentionally try to confuse their audiences, but the problem is exacerbated by viewers who solely look at news items through a political lens.

“The trend nowadays, especially on cable news, is a blurring of opinion. In fact, and depending on event, it’s mostly on partisan leanings. So people that hear something — and I see this with my friends on both sides — based on the political philosophy they’ve bought into that they’re emotionally connected to, two people look at the same story and get a wildly different interpretation of it,” he continued. “And both may think a story is biased. We can agree to disagree, but you can’t agree to disagree that two plus two equals 22.”

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Sean Hannity: Jake Tapper, Rachel Maddow Aren’t Honest With Their Audiences

“They claim they’re journalists. They’re anything but journalists. Just own who you are.”

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Last week, Sean Hannity returned fire on Jake Tapper after criticism from the CNN host. Hannity continued his onslaught by adding Rachel Maddow to his list.

After Tapper referred to the Fox News and nationally syndicated radio host as an “unofficial Trump adviser,” adding that “Hannity is always known for being charitable,” Hannity sounded off by saying that he wouldn’t even respond to Tapper until his CNN ratings were in the same ballpark as Hannity’s.

While speaking with author and Fox News contributor Joe Concha on The Sean Hannity Show Friday, Concha shared that CNN had acted maliciously in airing a report that New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers — who was reportedly under consideration to be Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate on a third-party presidential ticket — had privately shared conspiracy theories that the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut was a false flag operation enacted by the United States government as a way to restrict gun ownership.

That’s when Hannity remembered his criticism of Jake Tapper, who was hosting on the cable news network when the report dropped. Sean Hannity argued that Tapper, along with other cable news hosts, are dishonest in their approach.

“He’s a perfect example. Or Rachel Maddow, another example. These are people that claim to be journalists and they’re liberal, leftist talk show hosts,” said Hannity. “They’re dishonest about who they are. They claim they’re journalists. They’re anything but journalists. Just own who you are.”

Concha agreed, saying that the network intentionally held the story until it was political advantageous to release it against the NFL star.

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